Definitions for icebound

icebound ice·bound

Spelling: [ahys-bound]
IPA: /ˈaɪsˌbaʊnd/

Icebound is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in icebound (bcdeinou).

Definitions for icebound

adjective

  1. held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in:
  2. obstructed or shut off by ice:

Origin of icebound

First recorded in 1650-60; ice + -bound1

Examples for icebound

Port at Libau, on the Baltic, is in a region less liable to be icebound in the winter.

Were the Reds engaged in enlarging their icebound headquarters?

It was a daring venture, but the expedition was ill-equipped to battle with the icebound seas of the frozen north.

Before them stretched tumbled hills, converging on an icebound lake.

The newcomer vainly strove to move his icebound jaws and jowls.

I look down at the little stream and the little mill that has been icebound all the winter, and I stop.

Deep was the silence of the icebound shore that day, sparkling the blue waters across which the sun marked a glittering track.

For one thing, it is always ice-free, whereas the eastern route is icebound for five months in the year.

Rather they seemed places for summer trips alone, to be left in winter icebound and desolate.

They, too, feed the northern health stations in icebound ports where submersibles dare not rise.

Word Value for icebound
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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